Trying to Understand
In the spirit of barely adequate coverage, here are some recent releases that deserve your immediate attention. Juma Spears dropped an excellent new EP,...
Shea and Lola
In early 2001, a Fort Worth-born singer-songwriter named Shea Seger put out a major-label album, The May Street Project, inspiring Elton John (?!?) to...
Radio, What’s New?
I know I'm going to get a raft of shit from my boys at The Good Show (Sundays 9 p.m.-midnight, 88.7-FM/KTCU), but as a...
Exit the Highway
There are a lot of things I don't "get." Coconut flavoring is one. Who in the hell wants to eat anything that tastes even...
Untapped: Craft Music
I love beer. Beer is my favorite. Beer is good. Beer is delicious. And beer is all I need to get me through another...
A Music-Lover’s Manifesto
I'm worried. There's this book out now by famed socio-economist Francis Fukuyama that confirms everything I've feared about hipster retro-culture.
See, as technology makes possible...
Slow Draw’s Sci-Fi/Horror Flick
Slow Draw is the solo project of Stone Machine Electric drummer Mark Kitchens, who just put out Avoiding It, a five-song digitally released collection...
Skynyrd: Undercover Libs
They simply did not make sense. The same twangy rockers who in song either absolved themselves of the reign of closeted Imperial Wizard George...
MAF ’14 Schedule Announced
Forty-eight bands, all from the great 817 and all nominees in Fort Worth Weekly’s 17th Annual Music Awards, will converge on eight venues in...
Don’t Bring ‘Momma’ to SXSW
There are just some neo-traditional country songs that have "classic" written all over them, and Jerrod Niemann's "I Love Women (My Momma Can't Stand)"...
